Not one but two University of Virginia School of Medicine discoveries are being featured in the STAT health news site’s annual bracket tournament of 2021’s biggest biomedical advances. It’s the fourth ...

The human story — where we come from and how we evolved — got a new chapter in 2021. Thanks to new fossil finds and analysis of ancient DNA preserved in teeth, bones and cave dirt, scientists have ...

Read about the year’s most attention-grabbing findings by scientists at the National Museum of Natural History Abigail Eisenstadt Research in 2021 revealed that humpback whales eat three times more ...

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for the discovery of temperature and touch receptors, it was announced at a press ...

There were many important scientific discoveries unrelated to COVID-19 this year. Scientists have studied and developed new treatments for everything from depression to rare genetic disease. A blood ...

Active weather across the globe in 2021 helped unearth a number of fascinating artifacts from mysterious skulls to an entire ghost town. Yet inanimate objects weren't the only unbelievable finds made ...

Discovery, Inc. hit 22 million paid streaming subscribers worldwide by the end of 2021, with the vast majority being Discovery Plus customers, the company revealed Thursday. The Q4 numbers show a ...